Meet the editor

Anca Pantea Stoian is a specialist in diabetes, nutrition, and metabolic diseases as well as health food hygiene. She also has competency in general ultrasonography. She is an associate professor in the Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Department, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania. She has been chief of the Hygiene Department, Faculty of Dentistry, at the same university since 2019. Her interests

include micro and macrovascular complications in diabetes and new therapies. Her research activities focus on nutritional intervention in chronic pathology, as well as cardio-renal-metabolic risk assessment, and diabetes in cancer. She is currently engaged in developing new therapies and technological tools for screening, prevention, and patient education in diabetes. She is a member of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Cardiometabolic Academy, CEDA, Romanian Society of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Romanian Diabetes Federation, and Association for Renal Metabolic and Nutrition studies. She has authored or co-authored 160 papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Preface XIII**

Pathophysiology of Diabetes **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 33**

**Chapter 3 63**

**Chapter 4 93**

Screening Diabetes **109**

**Chapter 5 111**

**Chapter 6 149**

Pathophysiologic Approach to Type 2 Diabetes Management:

*by Petr Ježek, Blanka Holendová, Martin Jabůrek, Jan Tauber,* 

*by Alena Soboleva, Natalia Vashurina and Andrej Frolov*

*by Mimie Noratiqah Jumli and Muhammad Ilyas Nadeem*

Organic Volatile Compounds Used in Type 2 Diabetes *by Mioara Petrus, Cristina Popa and Ana-Maria Bratu*

The Mechanistic and Pathophysiological Role of Adiponectin and Resistin towards Regulation of Food Intake and Appetite in Cardiovascular Associated Risk Factor of Metabolic Syndrome

Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT): Undeniably the First Choice Investigation of Dysglycaemia, Reproducibility can be Improved *by Dahiru Saleh Mshelia, Sani Adamu and Rebecca Mtaku Gali*

Redox Signaling is Essential for Insulin Secretion

*Andrea Dlasková and Lydie Plecitá-Hlavatá*

*by Rudolf Chlup, Richard Kaňa, Lada Hanáčková, Hana Zálešáková* 

Individual Glycation Sites as Biomarkers of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

One Centre Experience 1980–2020

*and Blanka Doubravová*
